He's a powerhouse improvisor, and he loves the jazz tradition also.
He was devoted to helping younger musicians carry on the jazz tradition.
Suddenly, though, young musicians are rediscovering the jazz tradition.
This also coincided with a renewed interest in the jazz tradition.
But his music also upholds a jazz tradition of sharp, clear writing that has been languishing since the 1950's.
It is, after all, part of the jazz tradition to work famous tunes into new pieces of your own.
Although only one part of a rich jazz tradition, bebop music continues to be played regularly throughout the world.
But the trio was still recognizably in the jazz tradition.
It means that you have to immerse yourself in the jazz tradition.
Brown's band during this period employed musicians and arrangers who had come up through the jazz tradition.